Scientific Executive Director and Chairman of the Board at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and President of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

1993 - present Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), Cottbus-Senftenberg

Assistant Professor in Geobotany at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, USA

1986 - 1992 Head of the International Research Department at the mining company “Kali und Salz AG” in the BASF Group in Kassel

Fields of Scholarship

Earth Sciences

Energy

Climate

Georesources

Environmental Technologies

Bioeconomy

Honours and Awards

Member of a number of national and international Academies including the Academy of Geosciences and Geotechnologies, Academia Europaea, the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry